The right-wing Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey doesn’t really object to empathy; she just thinks it is used for the wrong purposes to benefit the wrong people. In the case of abortion, for example, she thinks we should focus our feeling on the fetus, not the struggling woman. Transgender people are abominations in the eyes of God; regardless of their personal plight, we should be trying to stamp them out, not relieve their pain. In the case of illegal immigration, her concern is for the handful of victims of crimes committed by the immigrants, not the myriad of problems created by mass deportations. And black people should just get over it and stop blaming their troubles on guiltless white people.
When asked about clear acts of cruelty supported by the Christian right, Stuckey will admit they exist in the abstract, but glide over them and return to her talking points. After all, those people are her friends, and there is no point in calling them out.
The bottom line here is that Stuckey is a reactionary who believes that straight white Christians are the real victims in American society and that everyone else is at best deluded and at worst positively evil. That’s what she really means by “toxic empathy”